Hello, my dear readers. I return after horribly confusing you all in chapter four, and I come back to present you with chapter five. And I would just like to tell you that a good part of this chapter will be in italics.

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Chapter 5: Dreams and Memories

Lila was hauled before Darth Vader with a black eye and a bleeding lip. She obviously had not 'come quietly,' as they call it.

"Lila Skywalker," said Vader. Lila felt a jolt of surprise. How does he know my name? "Do you know why you are here?"

"Let's just say for a moment I didn't know," said Lila harshly. "Enlighten me."

"You are here because you know where the Rebels are."

"So do you. You just blasted our base out of existence."

Darth Vader ignored the interruption. "More importantly, you are here because you are a Jedi."

Lila grunted, but said nothing.

"You are also here because I know who you are." He spoke quietly so only she could hear. "You are my daughter, Lila."

Lila looked up. "How do you know that?"

"The Dark Side is powerful, Lila. Join the Dark Side, and together we could rule the galaxy as father and daughter."

Lila narrowed her eyes. "That is the problem with you Sith types! You always try to get a Jedi to join you by offering power! Well did it ever occur to you that maybe I don't WANT power? That there might just be the slightest chance that I don't WANT to rule the galaxy?"

"Do you value your life? Would you rather die that join me?"

"Yes, actually."

He waved a hand. "You will not be so defiant when you see what I have in store for you."

"And that would be . . . ?"

"Have you ever heard of a Force Vortex?"

Lila paled. Obi-Wan had taught her about Force Vortexes. They were specially created to keep Jedi in a trance in which the aforementioned Jedi would be subject to whatever their captor threw at them, including painful memories, nightmares, visions, and physical pain.

"Are you serious?" she whispered.

"Deadly." And then he knocked her out. He turned to Darth Eris. "I want you to watch over her. Alert me when she wakes up."

SWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSWSW

Lila looked around. Her eyes were open, but there was no light. Nothing was there.

Out of nowhere a bright blue figure materialized. Watching it warily, Lila saw it take the shape of Obi-Wan.

"Who, or what, are you, exactly?" she asked.

"Come on, Lila," said the thing. "I know for a fact I taught you about ghosts."

"…Oh. Right."

"So, Lila. Care to explain why you let yourself get caught?"

"It's not my fault! How was I supposed to know there would be a Stardestroyer there?" Suddenly she panicked. "And now I'm stuck, and I'm probably going to die, or I'm going to be forced to join the Dark Side—" she was hyperventilating now "—and then Yoda will make Luke come kill Darth Vader, and then I'm going to die, because Luke would have to kill me too, because I'm a Sith!!" she screamed.

"Lila. Calm down. It's going to be all right," said Obi-Wan slowly.

"How could it possibly be all right?!"

"I always knew any child of Anakin would have to be a pessimist," he muttered.

Lila shuddered, then turned away. "Just leave," she whispered. "Just go away."

"Lila—"

"LEAVE, DAMMIT!"

He left.

Darth Eris stood over the prone figure of Lila Skywalker, in a cell on the Stardestroyer Devastator. So alike, yet so different… What would Eris have been if she hadn't been a Sith? Thinking back to those days when she first joined the Sith…

On Alderaan, a young girl plays on a grassy field with a man and a woman. The girl runs through the grass, following the colorful butterflies that flutter there. Laughing, she glances back at her parents. Wait… "Mommy? Daddy?"

A tall, dark stranger appears.

"Arenia! Run!" yells her father.

The stranger has a bar of red light in his hand. Arenia is scared…screaming, she watches as her parents are impaled on the red light, and fall to the earth.

The world goes dark.

Arenia wakes up. The dark masked man is standing over her. She remembers him from somewhere…

"Where are Mommy and Daddy?" she sobs.

"They were killed by the Rebellion," says the man in a deep voice. "The Rebel Alliance, traitors to the Empire.

"The Rebellion?" she whispers. Hatred welled up inside her. "I hate them!"

"I will keep you safe," he says.

She had despised the rebel ever since.

Idiot, said a voice in her brain.

"What is that? Who's there?"

Me, dumbo. I sent out a Force-SOS and I picked up your flashback. Eris looked at the girl. She was smiling grimly in her sleep.

"So why am I an idiot?"

Because, idiot, the Rebels didn't kill mommy and daddy dearest. Put the pieces together: tall dark man who breaths funny, uses red bar of light to kill people. Sound familiar?

"You think I don't know this? I know perfectly well who killed my parents!"

So why do you still serve him?

"He would kill me if I left," Eris whispered.

So, the girls get some bonding time. How sweet. And do I smell a hint of mutiny?

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